Terrific: Blogger’s favorite team now co-owned by Bill Maher

posted at 9:19 pm on June 4, 2012 by Allahpundit

All we need now is for Olbermann to buy the Jets and I can give up sports forever.

I know what you’re thinking. If Rush Limbaugh’s too controversial to own a piece of the Rams, how come Maher’s not too controversial to own a piece of the Mets? Two words, my friends: Buyer’s market.

Political comedian Bill Maher disclosed that he bought a minority stake in the New York Mets when the majority owners were selling portions of the franchise earlier this year to cover debt…

Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz in March sold 12 minority stakes in the team for $240 million and used the sales to repay $65 million in loans from Major League Baseball and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and at least $100 million of debt.

Wilpon and Katz in March also agreed to pay $162 million to settle a $1 billion lawsuit from Irving Picard, the trustee responsible for liquidating Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm, over whether the Mets’ owners and others blinded themselves to Madoff’s Ponzi scheme because it benefited their businesses financially.

I confess, if we lived in a world where I had $20 million to play with, I’d buy a piece of a team too. Why not? It’s the ultimate fan fantasy short of becoming a player yourself. Instead we live in a world where Bill Maher has $20 million to play with. Note to HBO: If being tendentious and unfunny is what you want, I can do it for a lot less than 20 large. Take the Hot Air audience’s word for it.

The good news is that I’ve become a Pirates fan too this year, so if Maher starts turning up in the booth during games to the point where I can simply take no more, I’ll go ahead and fully transition to the black and gold. That’s the hallmark of a true beta male, my friends — migrating from a team that hasn’t won the World Series in more than 20 years to a team that hasn’t cracked .500 in 20 years. Things are looking up, though. 2020 or bust!

Have you read “Shipwrecked” yet? It’s the history of the Mariner’s front office and their 35 years of blunders, cheapness, and incompetence. It explains an awful lot. If management had kept the players they traded away, didn’t draft, and didn’t resign when they should have, they would have had a dynasty.

It just shows Maher doesn’t have any real impact, Rush does…Maher means nothing…the joke is on him, a nobody that nobody cares about, except as a clown.
Rush on the other hand, obviously huge influence.

As a Met fan myself I’ve endured a lot of disappointments,but none larger than Bill Maher suddenly appearing on my Mets news feeds as a partner. I was a Met fan as a boy in the days of Seaver, Matlack and Koosman, and I will be buried as a Mets fan regardless of a sleazeball like Maher or the Wilponzis.

It could be worse. The Astros are moving to the American League next year. I still don’t understand that. If the Commish wanted a team to move to the American League, why not his Milwaukee Brewers, who were originally the Seattle Mariners of the American League (OK for only one year), but the Astros, nee 45’s, have always been a National League team (50 years). Now they have to play imitation baseball. Guess I’ll have to move my loyalties back to the Cubs.